NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB
vs
PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V2


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB has 8960 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.71 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 30.64 TFLOPS.

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V2 has 512 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.19 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 1.22 TFLOPS.

GPU

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB is equipped with a graphics chip of the Ampere architecture, which has 70 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V2 is based on the GCN 4 architecture and is equipped with 8 execution units.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB GPU PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V2
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB Based on AMD Radeon RX 550 (Lexa)
GA102 GPU Chip Lexa PRO
Ampere Architecture GCN 4
70 Streaming Multiprocessors 8
8960 Shader 512
112 Render Output Units 16
280 Texture Units 32
70 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB is equipped with a 12 GB large GDDR6X graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.188 GHz clocks.

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V2 has a 2 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

12 GB Memory Size 2 GB
GDDR6X Memory Type GDDR5
1.188 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
19.0 Gbps Memory Speed 7.0 Gbps
912 GB/s Memory bandwidth 112 GB/s
384 bit Memory Interface 128 bit

Clock Speeds

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB has a turbo clock of 1.710 GHz. The turbo frequency of the PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V2 is 1.190 GHz.

1.260 GHz Base Clock 1.100 GHz
1.710 GHz Boost Clock 1.190 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB has 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 93 °C.

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V2 is equipped with a PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 80 °C.

350 W TDP 50 W
-- TDP (up) --
93 °C Tjunction max 80 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB are cooled with a Air cooling.

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V2 is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
3 x 90 mm Fan 1 1 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V2 supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.1 HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0b
3x DP v1.4a DP Ports 1x DP v1.4
-- DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V2 supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 5120x2880
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12
Yes Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
Decode AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V2 is -- and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

285 mm Length 147 mm
112 mm Height 111 mm
-- Width 38 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 8

Additional data

Manufactured using the 8 nanometer process, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB was released in Q1/2022.

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 2GB GDDR5 OC V2 published in Q2/2017 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.

-- Part-no AXRX 550 2GBD5-DHV2/OC
Q1/2022 Release date Q2/2017
699 $ (Reference) Launch Price 79 $
8 nm Structure size 14 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB
12 GB GDDR6X
60 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB
12 GB GDDR6X
70 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB
12 GB GDDR6X
104 fps (avg)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

3840x2160 (2160p)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB
12 GB GDDR6X
38 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB
12 GB GDDR6X
76 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB
12 GB GDDR6X
126 fps (avg)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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